Luis Lopez Nieves

Luis López Nieves (January 17, 1950), is a Puerto Rican writer and professor. He has won first prize from the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature (National Literature Award) on two occasions: the first, in 2000, for his book of historical short stories The true death of Juan Ponce de León; the second, in 2005, for his novel The Heart of Voltaire. He has also received the José de Diego Award, granted by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture for "His contribution to the enrichment of the Spanish language" (1996). He is the author of the short story Seva. International anthologies have published his stories.

Biography

She was born accidentally in Washington, D.C., to Puerto Rican parents. He completed a degree in General Studies at the University of Puerto Rico. Later he obtained a master's degree in Hispanic Studies and a doctorate in Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University, in New York (United States). He has collaborated in the newspapers Momento , El Mundo , Claridad and El Star , and has been a scriptwriter for important TV commercials and miniseries. For two years he wrote the column «Byzantine Letters» in the newspaper with the largest circulation in Puerto Rico: El Nuevo Día .

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts (in Boston) and a Ford Foundation Fellow.

López Nieves is the creator and director of the first “master's degree in Literary Creation” in Latin America, at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, in San Juan. In addition, he founded and directs the Ciudad Seva Digital Library, which in August 2016 had received 132 million visitors from around the world.

He is married to writer Mara Daisy Cruz, administrator of Ciudad Seva.

Novels

• The heart of Voltaire.
• The silence of Galileo.

Storybooks

• Seva.

• Write for Rafa.
• The True Death of Juan Ponce de León.

Some anthologies that include his stories

• The Hispanic American Story (Seymour Menton, Fund for Economic Culture, Mexico, Seventh Edition, 2003).
• The Hispanic American Story in the 20th Century (Fernando Burgos, Editorial Castalia, Madrid, 1997).
• The Wall and the Contemporary: The New Latin American Story (Julio Ortega, North Editions, New Hampshire, USA, 1989).
• Tales to chase away tourism (Vitalina Alfonso and Emilio Jorge Rodríguez, Editorial Arte y Literatura, La Habana, Cuba, 1991).
• Writing Between the Lines (Bowen & Weigel, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, USA, 1997).
• Die Horen (Wilfried Böhringer, Germany, Year 42, 3.♪ fourth edition, 187, 1997).
• New Cannibals: Anthology of the most recent Hispanic Carib History (Bobes, Valdez and Gómez Beras, Editorial Isla Negra -junto a Ediciones Unión/Cuba y Editorial Búho/Republic Dominicana-, San Juan de Puerto Rico, 2000).